There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.

Written laws are like spiderwebs: they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.

I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.

Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

If you must take care that your opinions do not differ in the least from those of the person with whom you are talking, you might just as well be alone.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

Do that which consists in taking no action, and order will prevail.

I am no courtesan, nor moderator, nor tribune, nor defender of the people: I am myself the people.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.

Politics is the art of the possible.